{"id":128261,"date":"2021-09-29T04:06:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T11:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/new-method-makes-starch-from-co%e2%82%82-faster-than-plants-can"},"modified":"2021-09-29T04:06:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T11:06:01","slug":"new-method-makes-starch-from-co%e2%82%82-faster-than-plants-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/new-method-makes-starch-from-co%e2%82%82-faster-than-plants-can","title":{"rendered":"New method makes starch from CO\u2082 faster than plants can"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-method-makes-starch-from-coe28282-faster-than-plants-can2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Feeding the world uses enormous amounts of land, water, fertilizer, pesticide, and fuel. In a step towards a more sustainable solution, researchers have designed a method to make starches from carbon dioxide more efficiently than plants do (<i>Science<\/i> 2,021 DOI: 10.1126\/science.abh4049).<\/p>\n<p>The new technique, which relies on chemical catalysts and a curated combination of natural and engineered enzymes, converts CO2 to starch 8.5 times as efficiently as corn plants can.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The advance hints at sustainable, efficient factory production of food and industrial chemicals by.<\/p>\n<p>Prachi Patel, special to C&amp;EN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feeding the world uses enormous amounts of land, water, fertilizer, pesticide, and fuel. In a step towards a more sustainable solution, researchers have designed a method to make starches from carbon dioxide more efficiently than plants do (Science 2,021 DOI: 10.1126\/science.abh4049). The new technique, which relies on chemical catalysts and a curated combination of natural [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1506,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-food","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}